David Mazzucchelli has been making comics his whole life. Known chiefly for his collaborations - with Frank Miller on seminal Batman and Daredevil stories, and with Paul Karasik on an adaptation of Paul Auster's novel, City of Glass - he began publishing his own stories in 1991 in his anthology magazine, Rubber Blanket. Since then his short comics have been published in books and magazines around the world. Asterios Polyp is his first graphic novel, and has won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and been listed as a New York Times notable book.
The triumphant return of one of comics’ greatest talents, with an engrossing story of one man’s search for love, meaning, sanity, and perfect architectural proportions. An epic story long awaited, and well worth the wait.
Meet Asterios Polyp: middle-aged, meagerly successful architect and teacher, aesthete and womanizer, whose life is wholly upended when his New York City apartment goes up in flames. In a tenacious daze, he leaves the city and relocates to a small town in the American heartland. But what is this “escape” really about?
As the story unfolds, moving between the present and the past, we begin to understand this confounding yet fascinating character, and how he’s gotten to where he is. And isn’t. And we meet Hana: a sweet, smart, first-generation Japanese American artist with whom he had made a blissful life. But now she’s gone. Did Asterios do something to drive her away? What has happened to her? Is she even alive? All the questions will be answered, eventually.
In the meantime, we are enthralled by Mazzucchelli’s extraordinarily imagined world of brilliantly conceived eccentrics, sharply observed social mores, and deftly depicted asides on everything from design theory to the nature of human perception.
Asterios Polyp is David Mazzucchelli’s masterpiece: a great American graphic novel.
發表於2024-11-04
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This is a novel that covers topics of so many things: marriage, love, religion, music, architecture, politics... And it has a warm ending! "It feels so good to pick your nose especially when the booger is right there." "There are two kinds of people in the ...
評分哲學類的書籍看完總給人一種似懂非懂的感覺,書中的某些疑點直到最後還不一定看懂,所幸這是一本故事繪本,可多次翻閱。 本書的主人公阿斯泰裏奧斯是一位著名的建築師,他有一個雙胞胎兄弟伊尼亞齊奧在齣生時就夭摺,但他卻總感覺他的兄弟就在他的身邊和他一起生活著。阿斯雖然...
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評分非綫性敘事的悲喜劇繪本,畫風犀利但不失俏皮,文學性超過今年讀過的絕大部分嚴肅小說,這樣一個外錶刻薄但內心脆弱的建築師主人公,太適閤用來談論設計、哲學和人性。Asterios和Hana的愛情故事,簡直太適閤拍成電影
評分敘述手法讓人愛不釋手。敘事學、藝術、多重視角和性格與流派的比喻,十分的動人。又趕上我自己一樣的時刻。
評分當日讀完 太深刻瞭……建築師的二元思維,溯源和惡劣影響……哲學藝術紐約音樂綫條視覺空間精神分析佛學……everything is connected……我們還有時間
評分A new standard for graphic novels!
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